Soup for Supper

by Phyllis Root

Book Overview

A wee small woman catches a giant taking the vegetables from her garden and finds that they can share both vegetable soup and friendship. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060250704
• ISBN13: 9780060250706
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 24 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

A WONDERFUL STORY WRITTEN IN THE FOLK TALE MODE...GREAT ILLUSTATIONS

Before I get started on this review, please indulge my need for a minor rant. I just read the review published here by Publishers Weekly. I am in almost constant contact with many Liberians; those employed by public libraries, schools and academia. I have many conversations, about books of course, with all of them. I never fail to silently cringe anytime one of them brings the name of this publication into the conversation. Throughout the years, I cannot help but wonder how man wonderful books the public and school children have been deprived of simply because the Liberian, who more often than not is in charge of acquisitions, has placed their faith, and either accepted a book or rejected a book based on what they read in PW. I am not at all sure who these people hire to do their reviews. I am sure they are basically nice people but I do have to wonder where a company could possible find and hire such a mass of troglodytes; trolls who obviously do not give a decent read to so many books they blithely write reviews on. This book has not escaped their attention; or lack of attention as the case may be. "The text, by itself, doesn't sustain an interest in the book;....." This is a direct quote from their review. Nothing, and I mean nothing, could be further from the truth. Thank you for your patience and indulgence. Now for the review: This work, Soup for Supper by Phyllis Root and illustrated by Sue Truesdell was first published in 1986 in a hardback edition. It is this edition that is being reviewed here. The author has used the folktale mode in order to present this thoroughly charming story of "a wee small woman who lived all by herself with only her garden for company." And my goodness what a garden this one is! Neat, well tended, slug free, well mulched and immaculately weeded. One day as the wee lady was tending her garden; suddenly she heard "Ka-Rumpble, Ka-Rumble and the ground shook! She quickly hid behind a mulberry bush to watch, and yup, you guessed it, a giant passed pushing a cart! Oh my! The giant stopped, sniffed the air and said, "Ho, ho, my eyes may be weak, but my nose knows a carrot when it smells one." He sniffed again, "Potatoes too. This is my lucky day." "Soup, soup, soup, a delicious pot of soup, Soup, soup, soup, I will eat it with a scoop - Soup for supper tonight. Soup with parsnips, soup with peas, Soup with rutabagas, please. Soup with onions, soup with parsley, Soup with pepper sprinkled sparsely. Soup with cabbage, soup with carrot - A pot of soup and a friend to share it." Or so the giant sings. The giant put down his card and went to work pulling and removing all of the wee woman's vegetable from her only companion; her garden. Well our wee little woman is a very spunky wee little woman and she immediately gave chase to the veggie stealing giant. And while chasing this "villain" she hurled some horrible names after him. "Potato nose" is followed by "cauliflower head" which is follow